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• Women’s Writes: A Reading and Writing Workshop

  
  New York History — Authority: 419
  This weekend (March 3rd and 4th) Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) is presenting Women’s Writes, a reading and writing workshop featuring two popular authors, Nava Atlas and Kate Hymes. The weekend kicks-off on Saturday, March 3, at 3pm with a guided tour of HHS’s Deyo House, which is set and interpreted in the ...
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• The Learning Network Blog: Jan. 30, 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi Assassinated

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  On Jan. 30, 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was murdered by Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who fired three shots at close range as the 78-year-old Gandhi entered a prayer meeting.
  18 hours ago

• Valleys scheme seeks Ambassadors

  
  The Welsh View — Authority: 89
  As some of you may already be aware, the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has been an important partner in the European funded Valleys Regional Park project – and I’ve been fortunate enough over the last year or so to be seconded to the project full time. I was recently able to produce a short video on an ...
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• Sermon of the Week: “What’s a Thousand Years Among Friends?” by Kim Riddlebarger

  
  Defending. Contending. — Authority: 410
  Dispensationalism? Premillennialism? The Rapture? A 1000 year reign on earth? Amillennialism? The kingdom is now? This age and the age to come? What is this all about. Controversy and serious disagreements swirl endlessly around the study and beliefs of the End Times. In this lecture, Dr. Kim Riddlebarger poses a ...
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• Joliet Regional Airport

  
  Brian McDaniel — Authority: 112
  The Joliet Regional Airport was the first facility in the country operated by a park district. The Joliet Park District continues to run the facility today, which averages 68 aircraft operations daily. On the Saturday afternoon when I took this photo, there were many touch-and-goes. I missed what would have ...
  2 days ago

• Big City Adventure 5: London Classic (FINAL)

  
  Free Full Version Games — Authority: 118
  Big City Adventure 5: London Classic (FINAL) | 68 Mb Search for thousands of cleverly hidden items around the historic sites of jolly old London in Big City Adventure: London Classic! Collect postcards containing fascinating and obscure facts about London and its history and earn cool mementos from the amazing scenes ...
  2 days ago

• Australia Day

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 151
  I took some photos of Australia Day around The Rocks and the Darling Harbour fireworks, however I was too late to get an ideal spot for the fireworks. Feel free to add your photos to this thread! From this set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mornnb/...th/6768968305/
  2 days ago

• On this day…in 1986

  
  Ozzie News — Authority: 118
  The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff on this day in 1986, killing the seven astronauts aboard. The Challenger was the second shuttle built by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It took its first flight into space on April 4, 1983, and made a total of nine voyages prior ...
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• The most un-Australian landscape I have ever seen... in Australia

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 151
  I came across this photo when doing a little search on the "Snowy Mountains" in NSW, and I actually did a double take because I was in such dis belief. I have not been to this part of Australia and when I think "mountains in Australia" I think erosion and rugged hills. It looks like countryside in New Zealand, Europe, ...
  3 days ago

• How to Create Animated GIFs And 3-D Effects

  
  SciTechie — Authority: 116
  Black and white time is over. However, Pictures from that time always turns memories on. They are all almost historic assets for the owners. We can better use such historic stereographs by creating a 3-D effect. The New York Public Library has a collection of 40,000 historic stereographs but less beneficial. To ...
  3 days ago

• The Learning Network Blog: Jan. 27, 1967 | Three Astronauts Killed in Apollo 1 Fire

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  On Jan. 27, 1967, the astronauts Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
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• Meandering mining camp? Where is Meehan, Alaska?

  
  Sketches of Alaska — Authority: 101
  The Eagan cabin at Meehan, Alaska—allthats left of the mining camp Where, oh, where, oh, where is Meehan? That’s what you might wonder looking at different U.S. Geological Survey maps of Fairbanks Creek .  Meehan, active during the early 1900s, was a mining community about 20 miles northeast of ...
  3 days ago

• Springfield Armory National Historic Site Planning Activities For Winter School Break

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 545
  
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• Fort Frederica National Monument

  
  A Student of History — Authority: 100
  At the blog “ National Parks Traveler ,” there’s a cool article on Fort Frederica National Monument , near Brunswick, GA. It is a great site, especially for colonial military history. Fort Frederica was established in 1736 by James Oglethorpe to protect the southern boundary of his new colony of Georgia ...
  4 days ago

• ON THE AVENUES: They didnt ask.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 120
  ON THE AVENUES: They didnt ask.  A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. (There was a special edition of this column on Monday: ON THE AVENUES MONDAY SPECIAL: River Views sweet dreams are not enough ) After the rear wall of the 153-year-old Peter Weinmann building at 8th and Culbertson crumbled early in ...
  4 days ago

• The Learning Network Blog: Jan. 26, 1950 | India Becomes a Republic

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  On Jan. 26, 1950, two and a half years after gaining independence from Britain, India proclaimed itself a republic, ending its status as a British dominion.
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• George’s Childhood Home from “Blow”

  
  IAMNOTASTALKER — Authority: 107
  This past Saturday morning, after waking up to a torrential downpour and then waiting a few hours for it to pass, the Grim Cheaper suggested that we head south to the city of Whittier to do some stalking of Whittier High School, aka Hill Valley High School from Back to the Future, which, amazingly enough, in all my ...
  5 days ago

• The Leopard

  
  A Traveler's Library — Authority: 456
  Your prize today is movie/travel related.  Enter before 3:00 a.m.MST Thursday morning. See how to win below. And remember every comment and new subscription counts toward the two grand prizes , even if you’ve won a daily prize. The Governors Palace, Palermo, Sicily Movie: The Leopard (1963), ...
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• The Learning Network Blog: Jan. 25, 1915 | Alexander Graham Bell Demonstrates AT&Ts Transcontinental Telephone Line

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 865
  On Jan. 25, 1915, the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated U.S. transcontinental telephone service as part of a demonstration that included dignitaries in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Jekyll Island, Ga.
  5 days ago

• Preservation Photos #116

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 106
  Read more about the Moran Plant here and about the redevelopment plans here.
  6 days ago

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